Tributes have been paid at the funeral of Second World War warrior Jim Wren, who was torpedoed by the Japanese, held as a POW and had a portrait commissioned by the King.

The Torsk’s sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades — that is until March 3 ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says America will “take all the time we need” to defeat Iran, declaring the military campaign is being won “decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.” On the fifth ...

On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming ...

Bureau Number 1515, a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator submerged off Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The aircraft went down Feb. 1, 1942. Air and Sea Heritage Foundation photo A team of maritime and ...

Great power conflict in the Indo-Pacific is often framed around flashpoints such as Taiwan or the South China Sea, as if war could be geographically contained. At sea, it rarely is. Naval conflict ...

In 2006, a Boeing 737 with 146 people on board disappeared over the Java Sea after its crew became disoriented and lost control of their navigation systems. What began as a small mistake soon ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A search and rescue operation looks for Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, which lost contact after taking off and crashed in the waters ...

JAKARTA — A 39-year-old Saudi citizen died after a jet ski he was riding overturned at Bubalu Beach in Pelabuhanratu, Sukabumi, West Java of Indonesia, on Monday, according to Indonesian local ...

Nachi was a heavily armed Japanese cruiser that played a central role in the Battle of the Java Sea. Equipped with powerful guns and deadly long range torpedoes, she helped shatter the Allied fleet ...

When the Chinese cargo freighter Istanbul Bridge set sail for Europe in late September, it took an unusual route. Instead of heading south for the 40-day voyage through the Suez Canal, it tacked north ...